Puffin Quotes

#1. The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars.

Bjork

#2. The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

Ann Cleeves

#3. Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
Left hand on a forty, puffin' on a blunt
Pumped my shotgun, niggas didn't jump ...
Lala la la lala la laaaa

B-Real

#4. Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.

Tamsin Greig

#5. Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#6. Lockley would've hugged him if it weren't physically impossible for a puffin and a walrus to embrace.

Barry Wolverton

#7. On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

Tamsin Greig

#8. Puffin the cat follows us for a while, with Finn shooing at her, which only makes her longing to join us more intense.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. I saw a Puffin
In the Bay of Baffin
Sittin on Nuffin
And it was Laffin.

Mervyn Peake

#10. Puffin is over seventy years old.

Roald Dahl

#11. Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse.

Puffin

#12. I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

Bobby Darin

#13. Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Bolingbroke

#14. The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

#15. Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

Michael Pollan

#16. The lights of Wayward Pines glowed against the cliffs that boxed it in, and for the first time, those steep mountain walls seemed inviting. Fortifications

Blake Crouch

#17. Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.

Kin Hubbard

#18. It's 2009, a Thursday night in September, and I've stopped looking for stars in the Los Angeles sky. I settle instead for the ones I see in my head when I go three or four days without eating. Same difference.

Kris Kidd

#19. Could beauty be caught and hurt
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past,
could beauty be sacrificed
for a thrust of a sword,
for a piece of thin money
tossed up to fall half alloy
then beauty were dead
long, long before we saw her face.

H.D.

#20. I'll keep your secrets with me, right behind my teeth.

Paramore

#21. Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Tom Robbins

#22. My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.

Alton Brown

#23. If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

Michael Morpurgo

#24. Yes, it seems that as the President (George W. Bush) comes to the end of his two terms, he's finally realized the best way to get things done for you, is for you to do it.

Jon Stewart

#25. I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

Delia Sherman